I don’t think writing about abortion will automatically be downvoted, but a lot of things people want to say about abortion aren’t a good fit for LessWrong. In particular, most abortion articles on the internet are about how the outgroup are obviously-wrong monsters and/or idiots. I have a vague worry that it would be hard to write something interesting about abortion given that people mostly agree on the facts (how fetal development works) and disagree about moral intuitions, but maybe you do have something interesting to add?
I wouldn’t worry too much about people in the comments making a good post bad. If you’re worried about it, you could just remove any off-topic comments (I think LessWrong gives post writers some moderation powers).
It’s not as much about moral intuitions to me so much as rational arguments. That may not hold up if someone has some assumptions diametrically opposite of mine, like the unborn being sacred or otherwise special in some way that assigns a moral weight to them incomparably higher than the moral weight assigned to pregnant persons. That’s something I’d be willing to write about if that itself is considered interesting. My intention is to ask what are the best compromises for various positions being offered by the side of the debate opposite myself, so that’s very different from perspectives unfit for LW.
I don’t think writing about abortion will automatically be downvoted, but a lot of things people want to say about abortion aren’t a good fit for LessWrong. In particular, most abortion articles on the internet are about how the outgroup are obviously-wrong monsters and/or idiots. I have a vague worry that it would be hard to write something interesting about abortion given that people mostly agree on the facts (how fetal development works) and disagree about moral intuitions, but maybe you do have something interesting to add?
I wouldn’t worry too much about people in the comments making a good post bad. If you’re worried about it, you could just remove any off-topic comments (I think LessWrong gives post writers some moderation powers).
It’s not as much about moral intuitions to me so much as rational arguments. That may not hold up if someone has some assumptions diametrically opposite of mine, like the unborn being sacred or otherwise special in some way that assigns a moral weight to them incomparably higher than the moral weight assigned to pregnant persons. That’s something I’d be willing to write about if that itself is considered interesting. My intention is to ask what are the best compromises for various positions being offered by the side of the debate opposite myself, so that’s very different from perspectives unfit for LW.